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• Sigourney Weaver is an Academy Award nominated American actress best known for her role in the Alien Films. Other hit films include Ghostbusters, Gorillas in the Mist, and The Ice Storm.

  She received a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the prestigious Yale School of Drama where she befriended and acted in plays of classmate, Christopher Durang, an American playwright known for absurdist comedies.

• Fast Facts

  1. Birth Name: Susan Alexandra Weaver
  2. Born: October 8, 1949
  3. Hometown: New York City, New York
  4. Height: 5' 11½"
  5. Spouse: Jim Simpson
  6. Played Ellen Ripley in the Alien sci-fi movie series
  7. First role: bit part in Woody Allen's Annie Hall

• Notable Films

  1. 1979: Alien
  2. 1981: Eyewitness
  3. 1982: The Year of Living Dangerously
  4. 1984: Ghostbusters
  5. 1988: Gorillas in the Mist
  6. 1988: Working Girl
  7. 1994: Death and the Maiden
  8. 1997: The Ice Storm
  9. 1999: Galaxy Quest
  10. 2004: The Village

• Quotes

  1. "I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about."
  2. "I think I get sent the roles Meryl's Meryl Streep not doing."
  3. "In Hollywood, if you are a man and speak your mind openly, you're considered a man in full. But, if you are a woman and do the same, you're nothing but an annoying bitch."

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